Cities are those concentrations of people, and things, without which there couldn't be civilization.

The modern city, made possible by technology, is not to be confused with those concentrations, going by the same name, that existed before the invention of the steam engine, which allowed food and other goods to be brought from further and further away. The other invention that permitted the creation of the modern city, is the telegraph.

All refinments of transportation and communications technology, including the internet, have only speeded up the growth of the modern city to the point where it has become another of the dinosaurs of the modern era.

The life of the city has been investigated by Jane Jacobs.

A free Finnish newspaper, published by Janton OY (ltd). Contains information on young adults' trends, lifestyles and places to go. Available twice a month in a variety of locations around town.

City as a newspaper has an interesting concept. Since the cities of Finland are varied and quite far apart, each larger city has a separate issue of the newspaper. Most of the features are the same, however, as they touch most young adults and their lives. The "Places to go" and possibly some other articles vary from town to town, but overall the newspaper comes out as quite Helsinki-centric. Note: The author has only limited experience on reading City newspapers from other Finnish towns.

City is available in the following Finnish towns:

• Helsinki
• Turku
• Tampere
• Lahti
• Oulu
• Jyväskylä
• Vaasa
• Pori
• Kuopio
• Joensuu
• Kemi
• Tornio

The City newspaper is regarded as somewhat of an authority on movie and restaurant reviews. It is quite easy to pick up an issue of City while out in town to see what is playing and if it is worth seeing. In the newest issues, (starting with 07/2002) a new restaurant column, Tarkastaja Lyytinen (Inspector Lyytinen) has appeared. In these, Lyytinen values value for money above all else.

Lately, City has also become host to thousands of personal ads. Many of these are mobile-centered, in that they are keyed in through a mobile phone and can be answered accordingly. This does not detract from the reading experience, however, as the classifieds are in a separate section. City also runs deitti.net, Finland's largest service of the sort.

The homepage, www.city.fi, is a portal for further information about the features in the issues, and also a forum of interaction for the readers. Many chats, message boards and the above-mentioned deitti.net attract thousands of users. The staff also post polls and questionnaires about subjects such as love, casual sex, etc. that are used for articles in later issues.

City is not a newspaper per se. There are only a few larger features per issue, and the rest of the space is filled with fixed columns, short interviews or interactive polls. One of these is Walter de Camp's "Inner Circle", where readers may write in and ask anything about partying, places to be or celebrities to see. City also runs "Life in Hell", a comic strip by Matt Groening. They also have an interesting concept where Finnish celebrities and politicians are asked what they are currently listening to, reading or planning to see.

City also has an English-language counterpart. Containing the essential clubs, events and other necessary information for the young traveller, it is available for pickup at most hotels. This is worth a read for a quick look at Finnish affluent culture and recent events.

'City' is the second album by the band 'Client', released in early 2005. My first exposure to this group was at Glastonbury 2005 where they played on the John Peel Stage (previously the New Bands Stage) on the Sunday. I had wandered (read: ran) to the tent hoping to catch the end of LCD Soundsystem. However, on arrival (while admittedly still punch-drunk from the Mylo set that I'd just been bouncing around to like a loon) there were a few confused minutes spent thinking that LCD Soundsystem were sounding a bit more electro-pop than I remembered. He also seemed to have transmogrified into two female vocalists who were dressed up as air stewardesses.

Okay, so I may have been a little more than punch-drunk.

It turns out that the day's schedule at the John Peel Stage had had to be rearranged after the headline act for the evening had had to pull out, meaning that not only would I be able to catch the entirety of the LCD Soundsystem set (oh joy of joys!), I'd also get to listen to a previously unknown band who I wouldn't normally have been able to see. Client is made up of Kate Holmes (of 'Technique' and 'Frazier Chorus', and wife of Alan McGee) and Sarah Blackwood (of 'Dubstar' fame), but they prefer to be known as Client A and Client B respectively. Their style is comparable to the works of Miss Kittin, Ladytron, Black Box Recorder, Fischerspooner and Kraftwerk; an electroclash synth-pop experience that nods its head at the influences of artists such as New Order, Peaches and A-Ha.

The opening track, 'Radio' grabs you from the start with a wonderful piano hook that joins forces with a dark backing synth that perfectly compliments the bored and impersonal sound of Client B's voice. 'Pornography' is another track of note, with a fantastically sleazy sound that gets your toes tapping, and featuring the roughened and dispassionate voice of Carl Barât on backing vocals. To compliment, 'Down to the Underground' enjoys the contribution of the disturbed, but extremely talented Peter Doherty, former band mate of Barât until they had an almighty falling-out a few years back. 'Down to the Underground' has a fast and hard drum loop with urgent vocals. However, unlike 'Pornography', it fails to make good use of Doherty's talents, and the result is somewhat lacklustre.

Other stand-out tracks on the album are 'Don't Call Me Baby', which (once you get over the prejudice of the track title and its association with the Madison Avenue track from six years ago) catches you with its chirpy, upbeat sounds; and 'In it for the Money' with its hard and embittered vocals that fully exemplify the mercenary content of the song's lyrics. The big disappointment on the album is 'The Chill of October'; your standard slow soulful number with sweeping strings that completely fails to catch the listener's empathy. However, only one lame duck for an album that has thirteen tracks is no mean feat, and this album is well worth a few listens if you have a penchant for quality electro-pop.

Album: City
Artist: Client
Release date: 24th January 2005
Label: Toast Hawaii
Catalogue number: TH007CD / 0724386413703
Track Listing

1. Radio
2. Come On
3. Overdrive (feat. Martin Gore of Depeche Mode)
4. One Day at a Time
5. Cracked
6. In it for the Money
7. Pornography (feat. Carl Barât, previously of The Libertines)
8. Down to the Underground (feat. Peter Doherty, previously of The Libertines, now of Babyshambles)
9. The Chill of October
10. Theme
11. Don't Call Me Baby
12. It's Rock and Roll (feat. Joe Wilson, previously of Sneaker Pimps)
13. Everything Must End

If we think that at least one million people are required be a real city, then there are 428 cities in the world.

Of course this is highly subjective. Countries and regions have different ideas of defining city limits. Demographers instead like to talk about agglomerations, where several adjoining towns have a high degree of inter-dependence that they virtually form a single identity, such as in the case of the Ruhr or Chongquing. The same can happen when a few large cities are close together(e.g.: Dallas and Fort Worth, Basel, Freiburg and Mulhouse), or if a smaller city becomes part of a sprawling larger city (e.g.: Yokohama, Leeds, San Jose). Cross-national comparisions are always dodgy due to different timescales and data definitions, especially when in developing countries there is a large segment of the population that is undocumented or migratory.

Naturally countries with a large number of people will have more cities. Urbanisation is likely to be high in the developed world, as well as in physically large countries with expanses of inhospitable terrain, like Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Australia. Conversely, European countries are more likely to have population density centred on their capitals. Only eight countries have ten or more cities with one million or more inhabitants:

USA:	   54 cities
China:      48 cities
India:      42 cities
Brazil:     20 cities
Russia:     15 cities
Japan:      14 cities
Germany:    11 cities
Mexico:     10 cities

Conversely, France, Spain and Italy each have only four such cities.

Below are the 428 cities in the world with an estimated population of one million people or greater. Where possible the details of any other cities that are counted are included.

34,000,000: Tokyo (Tōkyō), Japan (also includes: Yokohama, Kawasaki)
22,350,000: Mexico City (Ciudad de México), Mexico (also includes: Nezahualcóyotl, Ecatepec, Naucalpan)
22,050,000: Seoul (Sŏul), South Korea (also includes: Bucheon, Goyang, Incheon, Seongnam, Suweon)
21,800,000: New York, USA (also includes: Newark, Paterson)
20,000,000: Sao Paulo (São Paulo), Brazil (also includes: Guarulhos)
19,400,000: Bombay (Mumbai), India (also includes: Kalyan, Thane, Ulhasnagar)
19,000,000: Delhi, India (also includes: Faridabad, Ghaziabad)
17,750,000: Los Angeles, USA (also includes: Riverside, Anaheim)
16,850,000: Jakarta, Indonesia (also includes: Bekasi, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang)
16,750,000: Osaka (Ōsaka), Japan (also includes: Kobe, Kyoto)
15,350,000: Calcutta (Kolkata), India (also includes: Haora)
15,250,000: Cairo (Al-Qāhirah), Egypt (also includes: Al-Jizah, Shubra al-Khaymah)
14,550,000: Manila, Philippines (also includes: Kalookan, Quezon City)
13,800,000: Karachi (Karāchi), Pakistan
13,650,000: Moscow (Moskva), Russia
13,400,000: Shanghai, China
13,350,000: Buenos Aires, Argentina (also includes: San Justo, La Plata)
12,750,000: Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh
12,000,000: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (also includes: Nova Iguaçu, São Gonçalo)
11,950,000: London, Great Britain
11,650,000: Tehran (Tehrān), Iran (also includes: Karaj)
11,250,000: Istanbul (İstanbul), Turkey
10,800,000: Lagos, Nigeria
10,700,000: Beijing, China
9,900,000: Paris, France
9,700,000: Chicago, USA
8,350,000: Lima, Peru
8,150,000: Bogota (Santa Fe de Bogotá), Colombia
8,050,000: Washington, USA (also includes: Baltimore)
8,000,000: Nagoya, Japan
7,800,000: Chungking (Chongqing), China
7,800,000: Bangkok (Krung Thep), Thailand
7,450,000: Madras (Chennai), India
7,300,000: Hong Kong (Xianggang), China
7,300,000: Lahore, Pakistan
7,200,000: San Francisco, USA (also includes: Oakland, San Jose)
7,150,000: Johannesburg, South Africa (also includes: Soweto, East Rand, West Rand)
6,900,000: Bangalore, India
6,900,000: Taipei (T'aipei), Taiwan
6,800,000: Kinshasa, DR Congo
6,550,000: Hyderabad (Hyderābād), India
6,000,000: Philadelphia, USA
5,950,000: Tientsin (Tianjin), China
5,850,000: Dallas, USA (also includes: Fort Worth)
5,800,000: Ruhr, Germany
5,750,000: Detroit, USA (also includes: Windsor (Canada))
5,700,000: Boston, USA
5,500,000: Khartoum (Al-Khartūm), Sudan
5,450,000: Ahmadabad (Ahmadābād), India
5,450,000: Baghdad (Baghdād), Iraq
5,450,000: Miami, USA (also includes: Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach)
5,400,000: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
5,400,000: Riyadh (Ar-Riyād), Saudi Arabia
5,300,000: Santiago, Chile
5,300,000: Houston, USA
5,250,000: Madrid, Spain
5,200,000: St. Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg, Leningrad), Russia
5,150,000: Toronto, Canada
5,000,000: Atlanta, USA
4,950,000: Canton (Guangzhou), China
4,900,000: Wuhan, China
4,900,000: Alexandria (Al-Iskandarīyah), Egypt
4,900,000: Rangoon (Yangon), Myanmar
4,850,000: Ho Chi Minh City (Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh, Saigon), Vietnam
4,650,000: Caracas, Venezuela
4,600,000: Harbin, China
4,550,000: Singapore, Singapore
4,500,000: Shenyang, China
4,350,000: Poona (Pune), India (also includes: Pimpri-Chinchwad)
4,300,000: Sydney, Australia
4,250,000: Guadalajara, Mexico (also includes: Zapopan)
4,200,000: Berlin, Germany
4,150,000: Chittagong, Bangladesh
4,150,000: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4,100,000: Algiers (El Djazaïr), Algeria
4,000,000: Porto Alegre, Brazil
4,000,000: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
3,850,000: Chengtu (Chengdu), China
3,850,000: Monterrey, Mexico
3,800,000: Milan (Milano), Italy
3,800,000: Jidda (Jiddah), Saudi Arabia
3,800,000: Barcelona, Spain
3,800,000: Phoenix, USA
3,750,000: Recife, Brazil
3,750,000: Casablanca (Casablanca (Dar-el-Beida)), Morocco
3,750,000: Busan (Busan (Pusan)), South Korea
3,700,000: Ankara, Turkey
3,700,000: Seattle, USA
3,600,000: Melbourne, Australia
3,600,000: Montreal (Montréal), Canada
3,550,000: Surat (Sūrat), India
3,550,000: Pyongyang (P'yŏngyang), North Korea
3,500,000: Athens (Athínai), Greece
3,450,000: Brasília, Brazil
3,450,000: Salvador, Brazil
3,450,000: Durban, South Africa
3,400,000: Medellin (Medellín), Colombia
3,350,000: Fortaleza, Brazil
3,350,000: Rome (Roma), Italy
3,350,000: Minneapolis, USA
3,300,000: Nanking (Nanjing), China
3,300,000: Bandung, Indonesia
3,300,000: Kano, Nigeria
3,250,000: Cape Town (Kaapstad), South Africa
3,250,000: Kiev (Kyyiv), Ukraine
3,200,000: Kabul (Kabol), Afghanistan
3,150,000: Curitiba, Brazil
3,150,000: Kānpur, India
3,150,000: Surabaya, Indonesia
3,150,000: Amman ('Ammān), Jordan
3,050,000: Sian (Xi'an), China
3,050,000: Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo), Israel
3,050,000: Naples (Napoli), Italy
3,000,000: Dairen (Dalian), China
3,000,000: Addis Abeba (Adis Abeba), Ethiopia
3,000,000: San Diego, USA
2,950,000: Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal
2,900,000: Tsingtao (Qingdao), China
2,900,000: Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo (de Guzman)), Dominican Republic
2,900,000: Nairobi, Kenya
2,900,000: Ibadan, Nigeria
2,900,000: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2,900,000: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
2,850,000: Jaipur, India
2,850,000: Faisalabad (Lyallpur), Pakistan
2,850,000: Katowice, Poland (also includes the Upper Silesian Area)
2,850,000: Cleveland, USA
2,800,000: Luanda, Angola
2,800,000: San Juan, Puerto Rico
2,800,000: Daegu (Taegu), South Korea
2,800,000: St. Louis, USA
2,750,000: Damascus (Dimashq), Syria
2,750,000: Izmir (İzmir), Turkey
2,700,000: Lucknow, India
2,700,000: Rawalpindi (Rāwalpindi), Pakistan (also includes: Islamabad)
2,700,000: Aleppo (Halab), Syria
2,650,000: Campinas, Brazil
2,650,000: Cali, Colombia
2,650,000: Stuttgart, Germany
2,650,000: Tampa, USA
2,650,000: Denver, USA
2,600,000: Hangchou (Hangzhou), China
2,600,000: Birmingham, Great Britain
2,550,000: Hamburg, Germany
2,550,000: Accra, Ghana
2,550,000: Meshed (Mashhad), Iran
2,550,000: Colombo, Sri Lanka
2,500,000: Zhengzhou, China
2,500,000: Manchester, Great Britain
2,500,000: Sapporo, Japan
2,500,000: Puebla, Mexico
2,450,000: Nagpur (Nāgpur), India
2,450,000: Pittsburgh, USA
2,400,000: Changchun, China
2,400,000: Jinan, China
2,400,000: Shijiazhuang, China
2,400,000: Budapest, Hungary
2,400,000: Warsaw (Warszawa), Poland
2,400,000: Tashkent (Toshkent, Taškent), Uzbekistan
2,350,000: Taichung (T'aichung), Taiwan
2,300,000: Havana (La Habana), Cuba
2,300,000: Medan, Indonesia
2,300,000: Dakar, Senegal
2,300,000: Pretoria, South Africa
2,250,000: Guayaquil, Ecuador
2,250,000: San Salvador, El Salvador
2,250,000: Fukuoka, Japan
2,250,000: Beirut (Bayrūt), Lebanon
2,200,000: Vancouver, Canada
2,200,000: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
2,200,000: Tunis (Tūnis), Tunisia
2,150,000: Taiyuan, China
2,150,000: Leeds, Great Britain
2,150,000: Amsterdam, Netherlands
2,150,000: Maracaibo, Venezuela
2,100,000: Baku (Bakı), Azerbaijan
2,100,000: Kunming, China
2,100,000: Patna, India
2,100,000: Bucharest (Bucureşti), Romania
2,100,000: Sacramento, USA
2,100,000: Portland, USA
2,100,000: Cincinnati, USA
2,100,000: Harare (Harare (Salisbury)), Zimbabwe
2,050,000: Belem (Belém), Brazil
2,050,000: Changsha, China
2,000,000: Indore, India
2,000,000: Chungli, Taiwan
1,975,000: Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala), Guatemala
1,950,000: Munich (München), Germany
1,950,000: Kansas City, USA
1,925,000: Nanchang, China
1,925,000: Frankfurt, Germany
1,900,000: Goiania (Goiânia), Brazil
1,900,000: Donetsk (Donets'k), Ukraine
1,900,000: San Antonio, USA
1,900,000: Orlando, USA
1,875,000: Vienna (Wien), Austria
1,875,000: Brussels (Bruxelles (Brussel)), Belgium
1,875,000: Barranquilla, Colombia
1,850,000: Fuzhou, China
1,850,000: Cologne (Köln), Germany
1,850,000: Isfahan (Esfahān), Iran
1,850,000: Asuncion (Asunción), Paraguay
1,850,000: Montevideo, Uruguay
1,850,000: Indianapolis, USA
1,825,000: Kharkov (Kharkiv), Ukraine
1,800,000: Douala, Cameroon
1,800,000: Valencia, Venezuela
1,775,000: Brisbane, Australia
1,775,000: Minsk, Belarus
1,775,000: Dammam (Ad-Dammām), Saudi Arabia
1,750,000: Zibo, China
1,750,000: Vadodara (Vadodara (Baroda)), India
1,750,000: Maputo, Mozambique
1,750,000: Gujranwala (Gujrānwāla), Pakistan
1,750,000: Nižnij Novgorod (Nižnij Novgorod, Gor'kij), Russia
1,750,000: Hanoi (Ha Noi), Vietnam
1,725,000: La Paz, Bolivia
1,725,000: Lanzhou, China
1,725,000: Bhopal (Bhopāl), India
1,725,000: Hiroshima, Japan
1,725,000: Rabat, Morocco
1,725,000: Stockholm, Sweden
1,725,000: Milwaukee, USA
1,725,000: Columbus, USA
1,700,000: Guiyang, China
1,700,000: Ningbo, China
1,700,000: Palembang, Indonesia
1,700,000: Hyderabad (Hyderābād), Pakistan
1,700,000: Las Vegas, USA
1,675,000: Coimbatore, India
1,675,000: Virginia Beach, USA
1,650,000: Santos, Brazil
1,650,000: Manaus, Brazil
1,650,000: Wuxi, China
1,650,000: Ludhiana (Ludhiāna), India
1,650,000: Antananarivo (Tananarive), Madagascar
1,650,000: Providence, USA
1,625,000: Vitoria (Vitória), Brazil
1,625,000: Kuwait City (Al-Kuwayt), Kuwait
1,625,000: Tijuana, Mexico
1,625,000: Multan (Multān), Pakistan
1,625,000: Cebu, Philippines
1,600,000: Hofei (Hefei), China
1,600,000: Mannheim, Germany
1,600,000: Semarang, Indonesia
1,600,000: Kitakyushu (Kitakyūshū), Japan
1,600,000: Bamako, Mali
1,600,000: Lusaka, Zambia
1,575,000: Anshan, China
1,575,000: Jilin, China
1,575,000: Quito, Ecuador
1,575,000: Agra (Āgra), India
1,575,000: Sendai, Japan
1,575,000: Novosibirsk, Russia
1,550,000: Glasgow, Great Britain
1,550,000: Ciudad Juarez (Ciudad Juárez), Mexico
1,550,000: Mecca (Makkah), Saudi Arabia
1,550,000: Buffalo, USA (also includes St. Catharines (Canada))
1,525,000: Cordoba (Córdoba), Argentina
1,525,000: Khulna, Bangladesh
1,525,000: Conakry, Guinea
1,525,000: Vishakhpatnam (Visākhpatnam, Vishākhpatnam)), India
1,525,000: Kochi (Cochin), India
1,525,000: Yekaterinburg (Jekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk), Russia
1,525,000: Belgrade (Beograd), Serbia and Montenegro
1,525,000: Salt Lake City, USA
1,500,000: Shenzhen, China
1,500,000: Tangshan, China
1,500,000: Turin (Torino), Italy
1,500,000: Kaduna, Nigeria
1,500,000: Charlotte, USA
1,475,000: Yaounde (Yaoundé), Cameroon
1,475,000: Tripoli (Tarābulus), Libya
1,475,000: Taejon (Daejeon (Taejŏn)), South Korea
1,450,000: Perth, Australia
1,450,000: Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1,450,000: Urumqi (Wulumuqi), China
1,450,000: Fushun, China
1,450,000: Marseille, France
1,450,000: Nasik (Nāshik), India
1,450,000: Leon (León), Mexico
1,450,000: Gwangju (Kwangju), South Korea
1,450,000: Bursa, Turkey
1,450,000: Austin, USA
1,425,000: Lyon, France
1,425,000: Tabriz (Tabrīz), Iran
1,425,000: Gaza (Ghazzah), Palestinian Territories
1,425,000: Valencia (València), Spain
1,425,000: Nashville, USA
1,400,000: Copenhagen (København), Denmark
1,400,000: Meerut, India
1,400,000: Toluca, Mexico
1,400,000: Samara (Samara (Kujbyšev)), Russia
1,400,000: Kampala, Uganda
1,400,000: Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipropetrovs'k), Ukraine
1,400,000: Raleigh, USA
1,375,000: Lille, France (also includes: Kortrijk (Belgium))
1,375,000: